Three arrested, 7,870 illegal gas connections removed in fresh raids

A team of the SSGC’s Security Services and Counter Gas Theft Operations (SS&CGTO) continued to make major inroads against the menace of gas theft in the commercial units by conducting several raids that led to three arrests.

The SS&CGTO, along with the SSGC Police and the Company’s Recovery Department team, conducted raids on a sweet shop, a dupatta-dyeing factory and a marriage lawn in New Karachi, Korangi and Shah Faisal Colony, respectively, and apprehended their owners for using gas directly from the service lines. The total connecting load of the three raids was 807 cft/hr.

The SSGC Police filed an FIR against Omer Hayat, Arsalan Mirza and Altaf Bhatti before arresting them. Appropriate claims are also being raised in all the three cases of commercial theft for the recovery of losses incurred.

Meanwhile in fresh operations, around 7,870 illegal domestic connections were removed in different cities and towns by the company’s theft control teams. In a major domestic raid conducted by the theft control team of the Company’s Customer Relations Department (CRD) Team in Gadap Town, around 7,000 illegal connections were dismantled. Claims are being raised.

In other Karachi areas including Malir, Lyari, Essa Nagri, Surjani Town, DHA, Mehmoodabad, Scheme-33 and PIB Colony, around 610 illegal domestic connections were removed.

In the pilferage cases, residents had illegally extended gas connections that were dismantled during the raids. Theft claims are being raised accordingly.

Raids were also conducted by SSGC's theft control teams on houses involved in underground and overhead theft in Nawabshah, Dadu and Larkana regions, with the removal of 20 illegal domestic connections.